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Capacity

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP2 (81 kb)

Since 1997/98 there has been a 2.8% p.a. increase in passenger km and a 2.6% p.a. increase in train km. Passenger km per train km has increased by 0.1% p.a.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP6 (67 kb)

London and South East demand has become slightly less concentrated in the peak over the last 10 years. This is likely to be partly due to people choosing to travel at different times to avoid crowding and partly due to changes in working and leisure patterns.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP7b (84 kb)

Capacity utilisation is more evenly distributed across the week in the northbound direction then for the southbound services.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP10 (75 kb)

The LSE AM and PM peak periods have average load factors of 78% and 67% respectively. This suggests that there is some spare capacity during the peak 3 hours.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP11 (71 kb)

However, even at the current average load factors LSE TOCs experience significant levels of crowding as a result of the uneven distribution of loads between services. The AM peak has significantly higher levels of crowding than the PM peak.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP12 (83 kb)

Crowding starts to occur when the average load factor reaches c.60%. This is due to the variation of loading levels between different trains and on different days.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP13 (79 kb)

Peak capacity has increased on many of the LSE services over the last few years. This has led to a reduction in average peak load factors on some services and has helped to limit further crowding.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP30 (78 kb)

Cross Country has the highest average seat utilisation of the inter-urban services. AM peak hour seat utilisation is c.50 percentage points higher than in the off peak.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP31a (245 kb)

All day loading levels on inter-urban services, without intervention, are forecast to increase significantly by 2030.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP31b (237 kb)

Without further intervention, AM peak loadings are forecast to exceed 100% in an additional four corridors of the inter-urban network by 2030.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP32 (80 kb)

Demand is more evenly spread across the day for inter-urban services than for LSE services. However, they still experience AM and PM peaks.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP56 (516 kb)

Network Rail has identified a number of key capacity constraints on the network where there is very little spare capacity.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP58 (83 kb)

Virgin West Coast has the highest proportion of First Class seating and the lowest First Class load factors.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP59 (250 kb)

Detailed planning of capacity in each region is carried out through Regional Planning Assessments and Network Rail’s Route Utilisation Strategies.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP60 (296 kb)

The UK has a well developed network of strategic roads and rail links.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP62 (248 kb)

Employment growth in London is expected to be concentrated in a central east-west corridor, whereas population growth is expected to be much more widely dispersed across London.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP67 (70 kb)

Network kilometres were dramatically reduced in the 1960’s but have since remained fairly constant.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP68 (77 kb)

Key rail industry operating statistics.

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24 July 2007

Delivering a Sustainable Railway: Summary of Key Research and Analysis - CAP70 (79 kb)

Demand for inter-urban services varies by day of week. Although Sundays have lower demand they also have fewer services and this leads to high loadings.

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24 July 2007